Yu Ping'an and his colleagues searched the entire work area, but found neither the whereabouts of the body nor the trace of the murderer.

Several people had to prepare to return to the restaurant.

When passing by Xiaomi's room, Zhang Maosen tried to call the old woman who locked himself in the room Xiaomi, but there was still a crazy "Lord Ghost and God is here!" ’

Yu Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's go to the restaurant first, and come back later." ”

Chen Shiling already felt that the old woman Millet was a little scary, but at this time, listening to the murmur of the devil coming from the house, she felt even more scared, and wanted to leave here quickly.

Several people returned to the restaurant to find Nakamura, Minako, and Keiko already waiting there. All of them looked solemn and very nervous.

Zhang Maosen stepped forward and said about the situation that a few of them were exploring in the work area just now.

"Could the murderer or the corpse be in another area?"

Nakamura looked horrified.

"Let's explore the rest of the space!"

Yu Ping'an proposed.

"Okay!"

Nakamura and a few people echoed.

So, a few people first checked the bathroom and changing room nearby, and then went to the open-air bathroom.

In order to make sure that there were no omissions, Zhang Maosen and Nakamura also went to several pools to confirm it.

But in Chen Shiling's opinion, this is completely unnecessary, because although the pools are colored, you can still see the situation at the bottom of the pool at a glance, and you can see that there is no body or murderer hiding in the pool as far as the eye can see.

In the end, the whereabouts of the body and the murderer were also found in the bathing area.

Then, everyone came to the guest room area.

The first to arrive was Keiko and Yamashi's room.

Keiko opened the door very generously and motioned for everyone to go in and check.

Nakamura, Zhang Maosen and Yu Ping'an were not polite, and they went in to check after a few polite sentences.

Chen Shiling and Minako stayed outside the door to wait, and Keiko took this opportunity to get close to her husband who was lying in the room and comfort her husband.

Shan Yi was a little surprised to see a few people enter his room, so he asked, "What's wrong?" Keiko! ”

Keiko was worried that her husband was scared, so she reasoned that there had been a theft at the hotel.

Seeing this, Minako sighed a few more words.

Chen Shiling couldn't understand her words, but seeing her staring at Keiko, and the mountain shirt blocked by Keiko, and looking at her expression, she guessed that she was lamenting Keiko's difficulty.

A moment later, several people came out of Keiko and Yamashi's room.

Yu Ping'an shook his head silently at Chen Shiling, Chen Shiling knew that this was another futile return.

This is not surprising, as it is unlikely that the murderer and the body could be found in an inhabited guest room compared to the work area and the bathing area.

Then everyone checked Nakamura and Minako's room one by one, Zhang Maosen's room, Yu Ping'an and Chen Shiling's room, and the last empty room, but they didn't find anything.

"Could it be that the murderer left the hotel with the corpse?"

Nakamura guessed.

"This hotel is surrounded by steep mountain walls on three sides, and if you want to leave the hotel, you can only leave through the main entrance."

Yu Ping'an analyzed.

When Zhang Maosen and Keiko heard this, they both showed shocked expressions.

"However, when the body disappeared, a few of us called the police at the front desk! I didn't see anyone leave! ”

Keiko said to everyone with a frightened and incredulous expression.

"Yes! The murderer can't have left the mountain wall with the corpse! ”

Zhang Maosen also echoed.

"That's true, no matter what, let's go out and confirm first, maybe the murderer used some clever tricks to escape from under our noses!"

Yu Ping'an frowned, looked at the gate and said.

"I'll go out and see!"

Nakamura took the lead in pushing the door out, seemingly feeling that it was better to see than to speculate here.

Seeing Nakamura walk out of the hotel, everyone followed out.

After the rain, there was silence in the mountains.

After Nakamura came out, he walked down the stone steps and walked a few steps, looking around, and did not see any suspicious people.

"Wait!"

Yu Ping'an said loudly, pointing to Nakamura's feet.

When everyone heard this, they all followed Yu Ping'an's hope.

Nakamura also subconsciously stopped, thinking that Yu Ping'an had found something terrible. His body stiffened a little, and he looked down at the situation under his feet.

But everyone, including Nakamura, didn't find anything unusual, and they all threw surprised glances at Yu Ping'an.

"Look! Footprints! ”

Yu Ping'an pointed to a series of footprints behind Nakamura.

Because of the rain, the rain mixed with the soil in the mountain flowed down the mountain under the action of gravity. A thin layer of black mud was left on the stone steps.

When Nakamura came out, he walked down the stairs and left a trail of footprints on the black mud on the surface of the stone steps.

Everyone found the footprints that Yu Ping'an was pointing to, and looked at the stone steps in front of Nakamura that had not yet stepped on. It was found that there was uniform black mud attached to it, and there were no footprints of anyone walking.

Everyone has realized that the absence of footprints means that no one has left the hotel.

"Could it be that you left the dirt road next to the stone steps?"

Nakamura said, trying to walk from the dirt road beyond the stone steps.

Due to the rain last night, the dirt road was very muddy at this time, and as soon as Nakamura stepped on it, his feet sank into the soft soil, leaving a more obvious footprint.

At this point, everyone has reached a consensus, and that is a terrible fact.

That is, since the rain, no one has left the hotel, and no one has entered the hotel.

Chen Shiling looked down through the trees and saw that the four cars were still parked in the parking lot below, and nothing had changed.

No one left, which meant that the murderer was in the middle of the crowd in the hotel, and everyone fell silent for a while.

Chen Shiling couldn't help but feel a little scared, but fortunately, there were two men on her side, Yu Ping'an and Zhang Maosen, so she was a little relieved, and nervously took Yu Ping'an's hand and returned to the hotel together.

Everyone looked solemn and gathered in the restaurant again.

At this time, except for the mentally disturbed old woman Xiaomi, and the bedridden mountain shirt, everyone in the hotel gathered in the restaurant.

Everyone had their own hearts and looked at each other.

"Isn't it really a hidden incident?! You've all seen the nursery rhymes outside that shrine, right?! ”

Keiko was the first to speak.

Several other young people were a little unimpressed, thinking that it couldn't be that kind of ghostly thing, but the mysterious missing corpse could not be explained at the moment.

"What is Shinto?"

Chen Shiling asked Yu Ping'an and Zhang Maosen.

"It's someone who has disappeared out of thin air!"

Zhang Maosen explained.

"You may not know that in ancient times, the Zhinei River was regarded by the locals as a passage to heaven and the underworld, and there have been many hidden events in history!"

Seeing everyone's expressions of disbelief, Keiko talked about the history of the place and the legends of the past.

"No wonder, Xiaomi has been talking about gods and ghosts!"

When Chen Shiling heard this, she remembered the crazy old woman Xiaomi. I guess she must have believed in those legends so much, so she was so afraid.

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